The Myth of Burglar-Proof Safes

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 16, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 16.

The Myth of Burglar-Proof Safes

As Satan has perverted every truth of God, his agents pervert to their base uses of sin and crime every discovery and invention of science. Now Public Opinion informs us that expert reports to the government declare that there is no such thing as a burglar-proof safe. Professional safe-crackers are now using a comparatively new chemical compound called thermite in connection with magnesium, which will "destroy the hardness of the metal, and rob it of its temper, enabling a burglar to cut into it as tho it were lead." The government is advised to take other means to protect its treasuries.